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This A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of The Crucible by Arthur Miller study guide also includes:
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A 20-page guide is a must-have for any instructor, seasoned veteran, or first year-teacher, using Arthur Miller's The Crucible as an anchor text. The guide begins with extensive background information about Miller and the McCarthy era and includes a summary, discussion questions, engaging activities, and key quotations for each play act.
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CCSS:
Adaptable
Concepts
the crucible, arthur miller, the salem witch trials, dramatic plays, mccarthyism, the red scare, evaluating claims, textual evidence, inferences, literary themes, literary analysis, rhetoric, author's purpose, point of view, the cold war, body language, witches, tragic heroes, reader's theater, logical fallacies
Instructional Ideas
- Begin by having class members journal about a time they or someone they know got caught doing something they shouldn't
- Next, have writers describe what that person did when caught ( lied, blamed someone else, etc.)
- Then, hold a full-class discussion and create a list of these responses and post it in the classroom
- As the discussion of the play progresses, add a character's name next to the response they choose when caught
- Turn out the lights, turn up the AC, and invite a male faculty member dressed in a black robe to deliver Jonathan Edwards's " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon to the class
Classroom Considerations
- Requires extra prep time to acquire and set up the materials for the stations' activity
- Activities and discussion questions are provided for all reading levels
Pros
- A station's activity provides background information and introduces scholars to the McCarthy era with videos, audio, images, and short texts
- Provides links are to materials that may be used at the stations
Cons
- None